From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:06:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: don't add trailing blanks (i.e., do what GNU diff -u now does)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612181305500.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <em4all$b2c$1@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> > 
> >> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Jim Meyering wrote:
> >>>
> >>> You may recall that GNU diff -u changed recently so that it no
> >>> longer outputs any trailing space unless the input data has it.
> >>
> >> I still consider that to be a bug in GNU "diff -u".
> >>
> >> We work around that bug when applying patches, but I don't think we should 
> >> replicate it.
> > 
> > Me neither.
> 
> Perhaps with --gnu-diff-compatibility then? 

Rather --braindead-gnu-bug-compatibility.

Ciao,
Dscho